[sdiy] ? About Alesis Keyboard Controllers @ All Electronics (Van Nuys, CA)

[patchell]

   Are you talking about the 88 Key Hammer action keyboards?  I purchased six of
them.  I haven't had time to work on them yet, however, the ones I got seem to
be in pretty good mechanical condition (I was real picky).  What I mostly need
right now is a schematic for the key matrix so I can hook one up and test it.
If worse comes to worse, I will reverse engineer they thing.

    I was also thinking of cutting one down to make a 3 octave and 4 octave
keyboard from one keyboard.  I would put the 3 octave keyboard into my old Paia
8700... :-)

Ron Malleis wrote:

> Hi, all!
>
> I was at this store today, and briefly looked at these controllers...I'd say
> they felt pretty nice overall action-wise (especially for $20 a pop :-).
> I've seen recent discussions about these things on the list, but I would
> like to hear from those that have gotten one (or 2+ to assemble a single
> completely-working unit).  What were the problems you encountered with
> these?  Were they easy to fix, or pretty involved/complicated?  How would
> one go about fixing said problems? Any total disaster stories from anyone?
> I'm interested in piecing together a nice controller from a couple of these,
> but am pretty green with diagnosing/fixing problems, etc. Any input/help
> much appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ron

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